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First off -- I think NetBSD is a much nicer unix than the "user-friendly" linux distros. It is less complicated, and thus both easier to understand and more correct.

At the conference in Austin, someone helped me install BSD on my 1 1/2 year old laptop. If he hadn't been sitting there helping me along, there is no way I would have gotten it installed - it was painful. I still don't have dhcp working, despite following "the manual" the best I can.

If you mean FreeBSD: I tried FreeBSD 4.X a while ago and it felt like a buggier, cruftier version of NetBSD. In particular, the 4.X rc scripts are terrible. As of 5.X they have imported the NetBSD 1.5 (fall 2000) rc system. From what I've heard, though, 5.X is really buggy.

I assume you don't mean OpenBSD.

If you haven't tried NetBSD, I urge you to do an ftp install and give it a whirl. Just download and burn two floppy images, boot, and fol

: 1. What is the possibility of this being added in the future?
In the near future, the probability is close to zero. In the distant
future, I'll be dead, and posterity can do whatever they like... :-) --lwall

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